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University at Buffalo smoking cessation researchers applaud federal plans on new cigarette labeling

University at Buffalo smoking cessation researchers today applauded federal plans to require cigarette packs and ads to carry bigger, much more prominent and graphic health warnings, including images of the destruction to the lungs caused by tobacco, which must cover half of a cigarette pack. In announcing the initiative, the Health and Human Services Department called the new warnings "the most significant change in more than 25 years" in cigarette packages and advertising.

11 Nov 2010

ESC emphasizes simple measures for diabetic patients to slow-down CVD progression

Diabetics can face a five times increase in the risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) than non-diabetics. This leads to a seven to ten year reduction in life expectancy and a higher probability of suffering a fatal heart attack. These sad statistics have prompted the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) to mark World Diabetes Day on 14 November 2010 by emphasising the simple measures that diabetes patients should adopt to slow-down the progression of CVD and greatly improve their quality of life.

11 Nov 2010

Dana-Farber lends iPads to cancer patients to help them pass the time in clinic

Andrea Casella comes to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute every week for chemotherapy to treat her lung cancer. It's a full day. Recognizing that patients can spend hours in the clinic for treatment and tests, Dana-Farber has started lending iPads to patients like Casella to help them pass the time.

11 Nov 2010

MCAN invests $4 million to improve asthma management in four high risk cities

The Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Inc. (MCAN), today announced it is targeting four high risk cities with nearly $4 million for programs that will combine evidence-based science, case management and asthma trigger removal plans to manage a disease that requires more than the right medical care.

11 Nov 2010

Legacy applauds HHS and FDA for new tobacco control strategic action plan

Legacy applauds HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the leadership at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its bold new effort announced today to dramatically reduce the number of American lives lost annually to tobacco-related disease. Still the number one preventable cause of death, tobacco continues to claim more than 400,000 lives each year in the United States.

11 Nov 2010

Experts call for global agriculture reform to ensure food security as two rice conferences open

Experts attending the International Rice Congress in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Tuesday called for imminent action to change inefficient farming methods and expand the global rice supply in order to prevent rising poverty and hunger, Agence France-Presse reports.

11 Nov 2010

Health insurance open season questions? Here are some answers

With open season in full gear for many workers, Kaiser Health News columnist Michelle Andrews, who writes weekly on health insurance issues, answered questions submitted online by readers of The Washington Post Tuesday.

11 Nov 2010

Supported by emerging markets, General Electric healthcare raises growth projection to 10% per year

General Electric's healthcare division raised its projection for profit growth to 10 percent a year as emerging markets such as China spend more on medical equipment. GE Healthcare President John Dineen said his operation is positioned to benefit from big trends driving global health-care markets, including efforts aimed at lowering costs and improving quality.

11 Nov 2010

Health law or no, most businesses likely to keep offering insurance

Kaiser Health News' Amita Parashar reports: "One of the most fundamental ideas in the new health law is that employers should offer health insurance to their workers, or else they would have to pay a penalty, beginning in 2014.

11 Nov 2010

Sen. Mcconnell to file amicus brief in support of health law challenge

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell plans to file an amicus brief supporting a federal lawsuit challenging the health care overhaul championed by President Barack Obama, and he invited Republican Senators on Tuesday to join him.

11 Nov 2010

BCBS of Michigan alleged to have crushed pilot physical therapy program it saw as competition

USA Today: "As health care costs soared nationally, a small Michigan firm gave Ford Motor Co. a proposal to cut its physical therapy costs. The automaker signed up for an in-state pilot program, which was so successful Ford expanded it last year to cover about 390,000 employees, retirees and their families nationwide." But court "records allege Blue Cross used its position as the state's dominant insurer to try to crush TheraMatrix as it worked to also sign up Chrysler and General Motors.

11 Nov 2010

Ban on potential toxic ingredients in toys needed

Manufacturer recalls of toys, promotional drinking glasses, and other children's products constitute an ongoing "toxic toys crisis" that requires banning potentially harmful ingredients in these products and other changes in policy and practices. That's the conclusion of a new analysis in ACS' Environmental Science & Technology, a semi-monthly journal.

11 Nov 2010

Study: Big employers unlikely to drop insurance under health law

News outlets report on the employer health insurance market.

11 Nov 2010

Guardian examines former Pres. Bush's reflection on PEPFAR in new memoir

The Guardian examines the reflections of former President George W. Bush on the $15bn President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR) which distributed antiretroviral drugs to keep people with HIV alive, as the president describes in his recently released memoir, Decision Points.

11 Nov 2010

Pres. Obama discusses U.S.-Indonesia partnership that includes improving health, science

During a stop in Indonesia on Tuesday as part of his 10-day Asia-Pacific tour, President Barack Obama together with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced a U.S.-Indonesia partnership that will encompass a variety of key issues such as science, technology, health and trade.

11 Nov 2010

GOP lawmakers push health law investigation, Democrats consider revisions and legacy

GOP lawmakers are considering using their new posts in powerful House committees to go after President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, and they're focusing on questions uppermost in the minds of consumers.

10 Nov 2010

Elsevier partners with APM to publish Psychosomatic journal

Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information, announced today that it is partnering with the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM) to publish Psychosomatics, the official journal of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine.

10 Nov 2010

Computer helps doctors make cost-saving decisions

The Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune: The Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement will make a system that helps doctors make more informed decisions available Minnesota doctors next year. The system has apparently eliminated about $28 million a year in unnecessary tests in a trial program in which it was made available to about 2,000 Minnesota doctors.

10 Nov 2010

5 questions: Should a hospital develop an ACO?

Becker's Hospital Review reports on how to determine whether a hospital should develop or join an accountable care organization.

10 Nov 2010

Researchers find text messages to HIV patients improve adherence, health outcomes in Kenya trial

Using mobile-phone text messages to remind HIV patients to take their dose of life-saving medications can give a major boost to drug adherence, according to an innovative trial in Kenya unveiled on Tuesday, Agence France-Presse reports.

10 Nov 2010

Healthcare News

University at Buffalo smoking cessation researchers applaud federal plans on new cigarette labeling

ESC emphasizes simple measures for diabetic patients to slow-down CVD progression

Dana-Farber lends iPads to cancer patients to help them pass the time in clinic

MCAN invests $4 million to improve asthma management in four high risk cities

Legacy applauds HHS and FDA for new tobacco control strategic action plan

Experts call for global agriculture reform to ensure food security as two rice conferences open

Health insurance open season questions? Here are some answers

Supported by emerging markets, General Electric healthcare raises growth projection to 10% per year

Health law or no, most businesses likely to keep offering insurance

Sen. Mcconnell to file amicus brief in support of health law challenge

BCBS of Michigan alleged to have crushed pilot physical therapy program it saw as competition

Ban on potential toxic ingredients in toys needed

Study: Big employers unlikely to drop insurance under health law

Guardian examines former Pres. Bush's reflection on PEPFAR in new memoir

Pres. Obama discusses U.S.-Indonesia partnership that includes improving health, science

GOP lawmakers push health law investigation, Democrats consider revisions and legacy

Elsevier partners with APM to publish Psychosomatic journal

Computer helps doctors make cost-saving decisions

5 questions: Should a hospital develop an ACO?

Researchers find text messages to HIV patients improve adherence, health outcomes in Kenya trial

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Fourier 80: bringing benchtop NMR systems to the laboratory

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